Twenty years ofLearned Publishing

How has publishing changed in the last twenty years?

It is useful to consider the trajectory of both scientific and literary publishing on the gridgroup plane defined by Mary Douglas which arranges attitudes along two axes: one ranging from the hierarchical to the egalitarian, and the other spanning individualistic to communitarian (figure 1). I would contend that, in both cases, there has been a move from the hierarchical/communitarian quadrant ...

25 years of regular publishing

25 years of regular publishing Iranian Journal of Physics Research has been publishing since 1996. We are giving a short report on this experience and the progress of IJPR.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

Twenty years of technology.

In looking back at previous issues of RNA and my own eight RNA papers, what strikes me, in addition to all the great science that’s been published in our society journal over the past 20 years, is the evolution (or more properly, revolution!) in the methods and technologies we use. Equally striking has been the exponential increase in the amount of data in each published paper. In two decades, ...

Twenty years of marriages.

In 1994, a total of 159,959 marriages were performed in Canada, up only slightly from 159,316 the year before. This small increase had no effect on the crude marriage rate, which remained at 5.5 marriages per 1,000 population. Aside from a brief uptum in the late 1980s, Canada's marriage rate has fallen quite steadily since the early 1970s. The overall decline is also evident when rates are dis...